Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia
On the Slovak side of the Carpathian mountains, the archaeology of the First World War had long been completely outside the scope of research interest. At the same time, conflicts in this region had played a very important role in the initial phase of the war. Here, the Austro-Hungarian army blocke...
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| author | Martin Vojtas Jakub Těsnohlídek Michaela Prišťáková Jan Petřík Martin Fojtík Jiří Zubalík Radim Kapavík Peter Tajkov |
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On the Slovak side of the Carpathian mountains, the archaeology of the First World War had long been completely outside the scope of research interest. At the same time, conflicts in this region had played a very important role in the initial phase of the war. Here, the Austro-Hungarian army blocked the invasion of the Russian army into Hungary with all its might. This lack of attention changed in the last decade with surveys conducted by our team from Masaryk University. In this short overview we describe and evaluate our main research conclusions so far based on surveys conducted at sites bearing the names of the hills of Staviská, Kobyla, Cingov and Wertyszów. Each of the sites is a place where various military events took place, so we have applied different, mostly non-destructive, methods to their study. Our results are mostly an introduction to the state of research and a review of a decade of expeditions to this unique field of conflict, where the armies learned how to fight in mountainous areas.
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| spelling | doaj.art-08de24e799d246a488e357c83f55d5972024-01-04T22:39:51ZengInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of SciencesArchaeologia Polona0066-59242719-65422023-12-016110.23858/APa61.2023.3362Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia Martin Vojtas0Jakub Těsnohlídek1Michaela Prišťáková2Jan Petřík3Martin Fojtík4Jiří Zubalík5Radim Kapavík6Peter Tajkov7Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Joštova 220/13, 662 43 Brno (Czech Republic)Archaia Brno z.ú, Bezručova 15/78, 602 00 Brno (Czech Republic)Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Joštova 220/13, 662 43 Brno (Czech Republic)Department of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 267/2, 611 37 Brno (Czech Republic)Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Joštova 220/13, 662 43 Brno (Czech Republic)Institute for Archaeological Heritage, Kaloudova 1321/30, 614 00 Brno (Czech Republic)Signum Belli 1914, U Trati 409, 667 01 Vojkovice (Czech Republic)Department of Theory and Art History, Faculty of Arts, Technical University of Košice, Watsonova 1561/4, 042 00 Košice (Slovakia) On the Slovak side of the Carpathian mountains, the archaeology of the First World War had long been completely outside the scope of research interest. At the same time, conflicts in this region had played a very important role in the initial phase of the war. Here, the Austro-Hungarian army blocked the invasion of the Russian army into Hungary with all its might. This lack of attention changed in the last decade with surveys conducted by our team from Masaryk University. In this short overview we describe and evaluate our main research conclusions so far based on surveys conducted at sites bearing the names of the hills of Staviská, Kobyla, Cingov and Wertyszów. Each of the sites is a place where various military events took place, so we have applied different, mostly non-destructive, methods to their study. Our results are mostly an introduction to the state of research and a review of a decade of expeditions to this unique field of conflict, where the armies learned how to fight in mountainous areas. https://journals.iaepan.pl/apolona/article/view/3362First World Warspring 1915Eastern SlovakiaCarpathian battlefieldEaster battle in the Carpathiansgeophysics |
| spellingShingle | Martin Vojtas Jakub Těsnohlídek Michaela Prišťáková Jan Petřík Martin Fojtík Jiří Zubalík Radim Kapavík Peter Tajkov Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia Archaeologia Polona First World War spring 1915 Eastern Slovakia Carpathian battlefield Easter battle in the Carpathians geophysics |
| title | Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia |
| title_full | Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia |
| title_fullStr | Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia |
| title_short | Battlefield Archaeology of the First World War in Norhteastern Slovakia |
| title_sort | battlefield archaeology of the first world war in norhteastern slovakia |
| topic | First World War spring 1915 Eastern Slovakia Carpathian battlefield Easter battle in the Carpathians geophysics |
| url | https://journals.iaepan.pl/apolona/article/view/3362 |
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